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W. Y. BIESER. 
or surgery in this state in violation of the provisions of this 
act shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hun¬ 
dred dollars for each offence, and it shall not be lawful for 
him to recover by action, suit, motion, or warrant any com¬ 
pensation for services which may be claimed to have been 
rendered by him as such practitioner of veterinary medicine 
or surgery. 
ii. This act shall be in force from and after the first day 
of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 
NEW REMEDIES. 
Compiled by W. V. Bieser, D.V.S., New York City. 
Salantol. —According to Bourget, salantol is prepared 
by the action of acetone upon salicylic acid. Its action re¬ 
sembles that of salol, and is prescribed chiefly for diarrhoea. 
Lychaol.— An extract of quiallaga saponaria, with its 
taste masked by appropriate substances, receives this name. 
It is seldom used as a medicament. 
Benzacetin. —Benzacetin, or acetamido-methyl-salicylic 
acid, is a white crystalline body, melting at 205° C. It is 
soluble in alcohol, slightly so in water. It is recommended 
for neuralgia. 
Baylahuen. —A drug consisting of the leaves and stem of a 
plant said to be haplopappus baylahuen of the aster family. 
It is recommended as a stomachic and as a remedy for diar¬ 
rhoea. 
Salifebrin. —A compound of antifebrin (acetanilid) and 
salicylic acid in molecular proportions. It is a white powder 
with an acid reaction, insoluble in water, easily soluble in al¬ 
cohol. It possesses the same therapeutic action as salipyrin. 
Salactol. —A compound consisting of the natrium salts of 
salicylic and lactic acids has been introduced under this 
name. Dissolved in a 1 per cent, solution of hydrogen diox¬ 
ide it is recommended as a local application to the throat in 
diphtheria. 
Lignosulfine.— This product is formed during the man¬ 
ufacture of sulpho-celluose. It contains free and combined 
sulphuric acid and certain volatile products of the wood. It 
is used chiefly as a disinfectant. 
Ingestol. —Ingestol is a feebly opalescent liquid of a 
lemon-yellow color, containing magnesium sulphate, sodium 
sulphate, sodium chloride, potassium sulphate, ether, alcohol 
